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Standard Four: Human Resource Leadership
School executives will ensure that the school is a professional learning community. School executives will ensure that processes and systems are in place which result in recruitment, induction, support, evaluation, development, and retention of high performing staff. The school executive must engage and empower accomplished teachers in a distributive manner, including support of teachers in day-to-day decisions such as discipline, communication with parents/guardians, and protecting teachers from duties that interfere with teaching, and must practice fair and consistent evaluations of teachers. The school executive must engage teachers and other professional staff in conversations to plan their career paths and support district succession planning.

Related Coursework and Training
  • Distinguished Leadership in Practice Assignment: "Maximizing Human Resource and Goal Accomplishment"
  • Weekly Internship Logs & Monthly Reports (tracking of teacher evaluation and support activities)
  • Observations using NC Teacher Evaluation Instrument
  • Clinical Supervision Assignments
  • Crucial Conversations Training
  • Influencer Training

Related Readings
  • Reframing Organizations, Bolman & Deal
  • Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work, DeFour, DeFour & Eaker
  • Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Grenny, Patterson, Maxfield, McMillan, & Switzler

Standard 4a: Professional Development/Learning Communities

Proficient: Works with others to provide structures for and implement the development of effective professional learning communities and results-oriented professional development; routinely participates in professional development focused on improving instructional programs and practices.

Activities:

  • Conducted Principal's PLT session at HCMS with mentor Principal.
  • Led & Engaged in PLT sessions with the staff.
  • Led & Engaged in Professional Development Sessions with the Staff.
  • Created Professional Development schedule for Spring 2014 semester.

Artifacts:

PLT Survey for Principal's PLT Session held at HCMS


Lesson Plan Tuning Protocol for Professional Learning Communities
LessonPlanTalkingPoints.docx


Lesson Plan Tuning Protocol PLT.docx


Law Professional Development Session
11.13.13 Staff Meeting Agenda. LawPD.doc


Meeting template for teachers to use when conducting team meetings.
PLT Meeting Minutes for Teachers.docx


Word Cloud based on Teacher PD Needs Responses


Standard 4b: Recruiting, Hiring, Placing and Mentoring of Staff

Proficient: Supports, mentors, and coaches staff members and emerging teacher leaders

Activities:

  • Career Fair at North Carolina State University & Elizabeth City State University
  • Conducted interviews for several positions at HCMS
  • Collaborated with Principal of HCMS on the interview process for teacher candidates

Artifacts:

Education Job Fair at NCSU

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Standard 4c: Teacher and Staff Evaluation

Proficient: Works with others to provide formal feedback to teachers concerning the effectiveness of their classroom instruction and ways to improve their instructional practices; works with others to implement district and state evaluation policies in a fair and equitable manner.

Activities:

  • Conducted walk through observations for teachers, providing immediate feedback from Google Forms.
  • Created walk through form for teacher feedback and to collect data on walk throughs.
  • Revised the feedback form to fit the needs of HCMS.

Artifacts:
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